NEWARK -- Police have identified a man who was shot several times in the city's South Ward Tuesday night and died at University Hospital a short time later.

Albert Allen, 24, of Newark, had been shot multiple times by an unknown assailant, according to Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Bergen Street near Lyons Avenue about 8:20 p.m.

Google MapsPolice say an unidentified man in his 20s was shot to death on Bergen Street tonight.

Police urged anyone with information about the crime to call the department's anonymous CrimeStoppers tip line at (877) 695-8477.